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blanche
I would love to devote more time to writing. It does come very easily to me. Thanks for the mention.
posted by
avant-garde
on October 28, 2006 at 3:15 AM
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Avant-Garde, I thought of you and your writing yesterday when I was out
at Half Price Books (I'm not sure if you have that chain in your state). If they do, they are having a writing contest for children's stories and the prizes are a gift certificate in the store, which goes a long way in a used bookstore. I'll post a link after I look it up. They're only 300 words in length, and the the winners will be published in a book. I just thought you might want to know. You're a great storyteller. I think it would be breeze for you.
posted by
Blanche.
on October 27, 2006 at 7:47 PM
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Shams-i-
Welcome to
my world.
posted by
avant-garde
on October 27, 2006 at 9:50 AM
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Blanche
I'm not feeling helpless and afraid as I used to. I now know techniques to immediately dispel the feelings.
posted by
avant-garde
on October 27, 2006 at 9:49 AM
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SpitFire
Yes, I agree with everything you're saying. It jibes with everything I've read and heard. I think it was an angry spirit, or a dark entity that was following her around.
posted by
avant-garde
on October 27, 2006 at 9:48 AM
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SYMPHONY
I had to desensitize myself when I was a late teenager. It really freaked me out.
posted by
avant-garde
on October 27, 2006 at 9:47 AM
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Mrs Tanga
Thanks. I'll put some more up in the coming days.
posted by
avant-garde
on October 27, 2006 at 9:47 AM
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Tanga
Everyone has their expertise. I just happen to be privy to a lot of paranormal experiences.
posted by
avant-garde
on October 27, 2006 at 9:46 AM
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Dave
It's hard to come across something that is inexplicable. Most things are just imagination run amok.
posted by
avant-garde
on October 27, 2006 at 9:45 AM
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YPunday
Disposing of a body is a feat few think of while in the throes of revenge. I think it'd be easier to keep it in one piece, rather than a bunch of little ones.
posted by
avant-garde
on October 27, 2006 at 9:45 AM
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very out of the ordinary in my world ,but I don't disbelieve anything
posted by
Shams-i-Heartsong
on October 26, 2006 at 8:44 PM
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That's good to hear, Avant Garde, you know what you're doing, I'm sure.
posted by
Blanche.
on October 26, 2006 at 6:00 AM
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Avant, your friend Sonya was most likely not "possessed"
but an unfortunate victim of an angry (or unsettled) ghost or spirit. I'll call it a ghost because the technical meanings defining a ghost and a spirit is that a ghost is a soul whom either does not know their physical life has ended, they have serious issues within this life that have gone unfinished or unresolved and can't let it go, and/or they truly don't KNOW they've died. Basically, they refused to "cross over" and chose to remain on or in the physical realm. (Most likely if the latter is the case, their physical death happened so fast and unexpected, they never processed the occurrance.) On the otherhand, if they are a spirit, they are aware of their physical demise, they have crossed over to the other side (aka the spiritual realm or the "astro plane") one can come and go as they please. One can visit the physical earth plane as often as they want and have the freedom to come and go back Home to the other side (with God) at will. There is no concept of time on the Other Side...In other words, when our loved one dies, it may be another 30 years before we cross over and see them again, but to them, it may "feel" as if it were only minutes.
With that being said, there are entities who choose to remain "dark." One that envokes any deceased soul via Quigua board, seance, chants, etc. must know how to invite AND HOW TO RELEASE. That is the biggest problem with such energies. It can and has been very dangerous and often leaves risidual negativaties behind. Once a portal is opened for the spiritual realm, it's fair game for ANY spirit or ghost to pass through...and stay as long as they choose and DO whatever they can or want.
Obviously, I'm never going to say that envoking the deceased is a bad thing, but I will say that those who don't know what they are doing or getting involved with, aren't experienced, or don't think it is real are setting themselves up for trouble. Sometimes, welcoming a possible ongoing timeline of chaos. Especially when dealing with dark entities. A specific soul isn't always what (or whom) they portray themself to be. There are many souls in the universes just waiting for the right invitation to dive back into the physical realm.
I sure hope your friend/co-worker, Sonya is okay. The non-physical soul can be just as evil, if not more than a physical being can be. It may sound like some info out of the X-Files or even some episode of the Twilight Zone, but trust me. It is real. I am used to many thinking I'm some freaky weirdo (well, hehe 
) but I think you know me well enough to know I am genuine. I know what I know and believe what I believe because of what God gave me and from experience. And yeah, before I truly understood my so-called "calling and gift" I experienced many trial and error experiences. Scary ones, too. Just ask my mom! We had bad, bad things "living" around our house for at least 3 years.
You are an incredibly talented, open-minded, God-loving, spiritual and insightful person. You are also quite inspirational with your words alone. I know you can help Sonya through this. Don't doubt her and her story. And, if I can be of ANY assistance, please let me know. (NO CHARGE, OF COURSE!!) Hope this all has helped a bit. If not, well, that's okay, too!
Brightest Blessings to you, my friend, and to Sonya. 
posted by
SpitFire70
on October 26, 2006 at 5:00 AM
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So Scary....
I don't have any of my own to share...
tell me some more.....LOL
It's funny because I don't mind reading horror stories....but I cannot watch them, I get to scared and have nightmares....LOL
posted by
_Symphony_
on October 26, 2006 at 4:25 AM
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I love these kind of stories and find it so interesting.
I cannot say I believe or I do not believe, nothing like that has ever happened to me.. I have only heard alot of stories from other people. So if so many people have experienced something like this sometime or another in their lives (like these comments below), it must be true. Butterfly9 is going through something now as well that she is telling about on her blog and I read it all, because I am hooked!
Mrs Tanga
posted by
Tanga
on October 26, 2006 at 3:41 AM
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I am so boring
I do not have any such tales and quite glad I do not. Mrs T loves this sort of tale (does not partake in anything funny though) and I will tell her to read this.
posted by
Tanga
on October 26, 2006 at 2:24 AM
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A-G, a chilling tale. The only one I have was subsequently explained away.
I'm a sceptic, but I often get pulled up and frazzled by such tales.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on October 26, 2006 at 1:54 AM
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Wiley
I think anyone who's lost someone dear to them would try and make contact at some point. I ask Sam about my dad a lot. He sees him and interacts with him.
posted by
avant-garde
on October 26, 2006 at 12:58 AM
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faholo
I think there are many dark spirits present- many more than people think. You go out into the world and are surrounded by materialism and selfishness. These people don't just disappear when they die.
posted by
avant-garde
on October 26, 2006 at 12:57 AM
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Bright Irish
That's a neat story. That bracelet was proof that your in law was taking an active part in your life. It's great to hear that people pay attention and get the message when it happens.
posted by
avant-garde
on October 26, 2006 at 12:56 AM
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blanche
No, I'm fine now. Sometimes, I remember a specific thing and dwell on it. But, I havce learned a lot since then, too. I think having the knowledge of how to keep yourself surrounded with good helps tremendously.
posted by
avant-garde
on October 26, 2006 at 12:54 AM
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Justi
It sounds as if you had some hum-dingers yourself. I understand if you don't want to recount them.
posted by
avant-garde
on October 26, 2006 at 12:53 AM
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OFFBEATS
I'll keep an eye out for it. Thanks.
posted by
avant-garde
on October 26, 2006 at 12:52 AM
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sannhet
I often wonder why we become so afraid, when it's obvious that the person or thing we loved is still around. My sister had a similar occurrence, when she was crying over her black lab.
posted by
avant-garde
on October 26, 2006 at 12:52 AM
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Blanche
I'm fine. I just had to put the boys to bed and take the dogs out. By the time I put some wood in the heater, I was getting tired. The feeling went away the minute I walked away from the computer. I used to get it all the time, when I wrote very passionately.
posted by
avant-garde
on October 26, 2006 at 12:45 AM
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avant-garde.
Too long for me to tell my friend. I did learn to stop playing at it though because it does get very scary. Better to just have a faith and let the rest go I think. Great blog
posted by
WileyJohn
on October 25, 2006 at 10:33 PM
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Ameri-koan, I do not doubt your story, and I know of
similar cases. When we begin to mess with the spirits of evil we discover the devil is alive and well, waiting for his chance to prove his power over humans. Scripture warns us and those who heed not the warning discover this to be true by such incidents as you described. When we seek trouble we usually find it! Keep sharing,
faholo
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faholo
on October 25, 2006 at 7:55 PM
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Bright Irish
I am like you, there are things I have seen that there is no way to explain away. That is a lovely story. All of mine have not ended so well. Be blessed.
posted by
Justi
on October 25, 2006 at 7:55 PM
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Brightirish, (sorry for eavesdropping), that's a beautiful story, it makes
you think that there is so much more going on than is evident to our senses.
posted by
Blanche.
on October 25, 2006 at 7:44 PM
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avant-garde
I have had several encounters with good and evil but they would take too long to describe. I can tell you a short good one that happened recently. I brought my deceased Mother in laws rose bush here with me when I moved because it held much sentimental value. I loved and cared for her when she was bed ridden for almost 2 years. Hard as I tried I could not keep it alive. I eventually gave up this past spring. The same day I went to the flower dept. at Walmart and found a almost dead small rose bush on the floor overturned. They told me I could have it and wished me good luck. I tried all spring to bring it to life and a few weeks ago when the cold weather set in I decided to move it to the spot where the old dirt was from my MIL's rose bush. 2 days ago I went outside with my coffee and in the chill found leaves and a beautiful Red Rose Bud that now has opened to a perfect rose. Around the same time I had given up on her rosebush I went to some appointments and wore a antique gold bracelet that she had given me and when I came home it was not on my arm. I retraced my journeys of the day and there was no sign of the heirloom. Very sad and disappointed with myself for both losses ~ all I could do was accept what had happened. Well, the same day the rose budded my granddaughter asked for a old speaking doll she had when she was little to give to a little neighbor girl. When I went to get it for her ~ the bracelet was sitting right on the lap of the doll. I will never be able to explain how it got into a sealed rubbermaid container in the attic and on the lap of exact doll that my granddaughter requested.
posted by
BrightIrish
on October 25, 2006 at 7:41 PM
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Avant-Garde, whomever and whatever is there with you, or was,
I pray that he/she/it is not malevolent, or threatening. I'm a little perturbed by your sudden disappearance and wait to hear more. Whatever form of spiritual protection you use, invoking the white light, a prayer of protection, I pray that it's effective.
I think this time of year, especially, as we near "All Hallowed's Eve", the veil between the two world is a little more diaphanous. I like Halloween for dressing up and being silly, but don't want to get too much into it.
Are you spooked?
posted by
Blanche.
on October 25, 2006 at 5:53 PM
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AG
I don't want to discuss my encounters, but I have before and do recommend some books by Frank Peretti. Piercing the Darkness and This Present Darkness. There are many others by him, but these were the first I had read that explained a lot for me. All of us have dark entities around us it is wise to be able to be protected.
posted by
Justi
on October 25, 2006 at 5:43 PM
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avant
Great story. Can't say I have anything quite that vivid, but I did have an experience in Great Britan several years ago that I plan on posting later this week...
posted by
Offy
on October 25, 2006 at 5:02 PM
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Avant -
Great story! None of mine are really scary, just kind of strange. One of my favorites is of my dog Cham returning to sleep with me after she died. Cham used to sleep with me each night on my bed. About a week after her death, I went to bed a little later than normal. As I climbed into bed, I noticed that it felt kind of wierd in my room. I can't really explain it any better than that. Just a wierd, different kind of feeling. As I began to fall asleep, in that kind of waking-dreaming state, I felt something jump up on my bed, just like Cham would do. I thought to myself, Oh, Cham has jumped up on my bed. As I felt the bouncing, I came out of that in-between state when I remembered that Cham was dead. But I could feel the bed moving as if something was moving around on it. I slowly reached down near my feet (where Cham always slept) and, much to my suprise, felt an indentation - a warm indentation - as if something was laying there. It scared me enough that I jumped out of bed and ran into the bathroom. I hung out in there for a few minutes and then decided that maybe it was Cham, and that I shouldn't be afraid if she wanted to sleep with me like she used to. So I went back to bed and slept with "Cham".
posted by
sannhet
on October 25, 2006 at 4:59 PM
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God be with you, Avant, I'll say a prayer of protection.
posted by
Blanche.
on October 25, 2006 at 4:57 PM
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Blanche
Okay. There's something standing right beside me here. I need to sign off for a few minutes.
posted by
avant-garde
on October 25, 2006 at 4:56 PM
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Quite original. It's only about 8 pm here so not scared yet. Maybe later
One true story was on TV last week: a Texan joined a new school and 2.5 months later was killed by her friends. The killers are in jail now...the woman might even have had a bisexual affair with the victim. The victim needed friends in the new school and got l;ured by the goth perpetrators. After hitting the victim with a club, the guy suffocated her with a belt. Then they tried to burn the body on one of their grandma's yard, because the icy ground was too hard to yield a grave. They hired another student to chop the body and carry it away to another State forest/park. The worst part was the guy was cold and unemotional in telling the story, and said he still loved the female killer who he followed almost slavishly. (The father of the dead girl says he never stops thinking about his daughter: "Why did they have to chop her into pieces too?")
posted by
ILLUMINATI8
on October 25, 2006 at 4:56 PM
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Are you sure you're not a Scorpio, Avant, we're the ones who are supposed
to be into death, the underworld, the paranormal. I WAS. I think I satisfied my curiosity. Besides, I didn't intend to live in the three old houses that I did, they were cheap. The first house, when I was about 21, I started having "lucid dreams', waking up paralyzed, (or seeming to wake up) by some malevolent, unseen force. I had to fight to get to sit up, then I'd start floating around the ceiling, trying to raise my arm, which was dead weight to get to the light string, to turn it on. Somehow I knew I needed to turn on the light. Each and every time, over the years, it varied, how I was released, usually by saying the 23rd Psalm (unusual for me, I wasn't raised Christian or religious), "Yay though I walk through the valley of the shadow of Death..." and was released.
The dreams started there, and followed me for years. It wasn't pleasant. Eventually, I got the hint, that this was my calling.
posted by
Blanche.
on October 25, 2006 at 4:55 PM
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Whacky
Lord have mercy! just the setting would be enough to give you the creeps!
posted by
avant-garde
on October 25, 2006 at 4:51 PM
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Blanche
I get bold every now and then and challenge one. Sometimes I'm intrigued, but other times I gasp at the results.
posted by
avant-garde
on October 25, 2006 at 4:51 PM
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No first hand experiences but I have heard a lot.
OK Down at the old cemetery there is a crypt that if you knock on the door during the full moon someone knocks back. I've never done it. Yep too chicken. (but I found out that it was only an echo)
posted by
Whacky
on October 25, 2006 at 4:50 PM
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It's not party games, Avant, don't play around.
posted by
Blanche.
on October 25, 2006 at 4:48 PM
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Blanche
Okay, you got me. This resurrected some stuff I've experienced before, which really spooked me.
posted by
avant-garde
on October 25, 2006 at 4:47 PM
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Avant Garde, Who says ghosts are harmless and never hurt anyone?
I've felt the presence of several things I couldn't identify and didn't want to see, but I could already tell did not have my best interests at heart. There are two marks on my feet, that I swear I have no idea how they got there, but are perfectly symmetrical. It just happened, when I happened to be particularly close in proximity to a woman who was going through crack withdrawal, and screaming her head off. I think drugs may induce a certain receptivity to darkness.
They were there the next morning. There was that, and the night my stereo turned itself on, a cassette tape slipped into the deck and started playing Suzanne Vega's "I Would Shelter You And Keep You From the Storm"., then a lamp shade across the room rocked violently, ricocheted and fell to the floor. Needless to say I wasn't interested in exactly doing paranormal studies. I stay the hell away from this stuff. That's why I stopped reading tarot cards, amongst other things.
posted by
Blanche.
on October 25, 2006 at 4:44 PM
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Shelly
That's COOL! I love hearing these stories.
posted by
avant-garde
on October 25, 2006 at 3:59 PM
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appleworks
Unleash it, brother!
posted by
avant-garde
on October 25, 2006 at 3:58 PM
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wow...mine is kind of boring compared to this...
My grandmother was cleaning her childhood home. It was in the family for years and they finally decided to sell it. She was exhausted from trying to tidy up the house for the realtors. She had been working on it for a month. (the house was huge). She sat down on the stairs and started to cry. She felt an arm around her shoulder and a child's voice say " It's alright Pauline, you will be okay." My grandmother looked over ans saw her sister Julia smiling at her. She had died from polio when she was 13.
My grandmother wasted no time...the house was ready the next day.
posted by
shelly_b
on October 25, 2006 at 3:53 PM
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avant
i love reading or hearing these stories. i now know what to write tonight in a blog.
thanks.
posted by
appleworks7
on October 25, 2006 at 3:48 PM
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